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"Originally, I simply referred to the gentleman as Future Guy. Now that the series is over and all of the secrets have been revealed, we now know that this is... Future Guy. How sad is it that the master villain's name is derived from sarcasm?"

Sometimes a meme about a work, that wasn't in the work before, catches the eye of the people responsible for that work, and they decide to actually put it in the work. Note that this is not about references to unrelated memes, which would just be a Shout-Out.

Can be an in-joke for an Ascended Fanboy character, or a Promoted Fanboy who makes sure it'll be in the show. Can also be a result of Approval of God, where the creator would approve of fanworks and memes derived from the source material.

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If you watch TV late at night, you can see the ordinary Vince Offer Slap Chop commercial has been replaced by this wonderful gem, though, presumably due to rights issues, the bits from Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo are sadly replaced with some new footage of break-dancers.

And the other Vince Offer commercial for ShamWOW towels has been replaced by this.

For a long time, the M&M/Mars company ignored the urban legend that green M&Ms are an aphrodisiac. In 1997, they embraced it, introducing the sexy "Ms. Green" character, with the slogan "what is it about the green ones?" In 2008, they began selling bags of all-green M&Ms for Valentine's Day.

Netflix began using the tagline "Watch Responsibly" following the running joke about users Archive Bingeing on seasons of certain shows at a time.

The HeadOn headache medicine. The original commercial's repitition of the slogan ("HeadOn! Apply directly to the forehead!") in the commercials annoyed enough people that complaining about it/making fun of became a thing. Cue a year or so later, they had incorporated making fun of the original commercial's reputation for being irritating into the new version.

Ever since TV Land acquired the right to reruns of Walker, Texas Ranger, all the commercials they use are basically Chuck Norris Facts, to the extent of "When does Chuck Norris watch Walker, Texas Ranger? Whenever he feels like it. However, you can catch it now on TV Land!"

After Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" became a huge hit, Teen Spirit deodorant used the title as a catchphrase in a commercial.

At the 2010 Superbowl, Volkswagen ran an ad riffing on the long-standing "Punch Buggy" game (where you punch someone every time a VW Beetle goes by and shout out the color.) The ad finishes with Stevie Wonderof all fucking people pulling this on Tracey Morgan. However, they messed it up by having the people in the commercial do it for any Volkswagon, and not just the Beetle.

In the preview of episode 245, Ichigo wonders why Kenpachi's Zanpakuto hasn't materialized yet. Renji gets to answer his question by actually saying...this◊. See the Memetic Badass page for more info- it's not exactly like the original meme, but it gets close.

The School Days OVA featured a "Nice Boat" labeled as such. Series creator Overflow have also labelled their booths at conventions as "Nice Boat" as well.

The Gundam fandom has a famous meme about something red being three times faster, coming from original series ace Char 'The Red Comet' Aznable having an Ace Custom said to be three times fast than usual with no visible difference but being red. Gundam 00 seemingly made this reality when Setsuna's Gundam turned red on acquiring its Super Mode, with the technician staff stating "It goes about three times faster now!"

This has been an Ascended Meme for quite a while, as ever since the original series they quickly put out a truckload of tongue-in-cheek meme-beholden merchandise, like Char's Custom Laptop, or Char's Custom Sneakers. Guaranteed to go three times faster. There was even a Char custom credit card in Japan which actually earned three times the reward points for every thousand yen spent.

A further Gundam 00 one. Graham Aker's masked samurai persona was nicknamed "Bushido Bob" and similar names well before Graham identified himself as Mr. Bushido, even adding "That's just what they decided to call me."

Another infamous meme from the first series has Dozle Zabi's declaration about how when "the Big Zams are mass-produced, the Federation will be beaten in no time". Cue the G-Generation games, where a Mass-Produced Big Zam is actually a unit you can use.

In the second game, Emma Sheen participates in a training simulation based on the Battle of A Baoa Qu. No fewer than three Big Zams show up in the fight. Emma comments that with Mass-Produced Big Zams, Zeon might have actually won.

In the fourth game, there is, naturally, a story scenario about Dozle mass-producing Big Zams. He still loses the war though.

When Gundam Build Fighters featured dozens of background cameos by other Gundam characters, including many who suffered tragic deaths, fans joked that it was the Gundam-verse's version of Valhalla. Late in the show's run, Minami Fuji (who plays Mao Yasaka) said on Twitter that according to the show's director, all Gundam characters exist and lead peaceful lives in the world of Build Fighters.

The fandom started using the number 503 to represent the Ed/Winry pairing, based on a brand of jeans of the same number produced by a company called Edwin. In a later chapter of the manga, the creator gives a nod to this, as Ed is shown to be staying in hotel room 503.

People started calling the second Greed "Greedling" to tell him apart from the original Greed in conversation, and because the human used to create him was called "Ling". When Ed meets him again, he decides he's going to call him this.

Lucky Star: Because of Miyuki's tendency to know everything and recite it with little provocation, the online community nicknamed her Miwiki. In the Lucky Star OVA, Konata herself referred to Miyuki at one point as Miwiki-san.

The series is often mocked for its protagonists' lack of pants. The Funimation advertisement for the series has the tagline "Winning the War on Pants" and refers to it as a "brief" series. Rightstuf touted its "high-flying, no-pants-wearing action."

Another meme strikes in season two. Minna somehow got quite the reputation for clenching her butt, and a meme formed that she could break anything with it. In season 2, episode 7, this is exactly how she ends up destroying a Neuroi bug that had been plaguing the base.note No, not herbase.

An Axis Powers Hetalia fandom joke was that Spain was known for having a nice ass in comparison to the other characters. The author focused on that aspect of Spain the most as seen here.◊

Caro: Is there some secret to maintain such a long-lasting friendship? Fate: Hm...I wonder what it is...We’re all just doing what we usually do. Arf: Maybe it’s that? You first met by blowing each other up, and everything after that was pretty simple. Fate: Huh? Arf: They say it was that way with Nanoha and Alisa. It was the same with Fate and Nanoha too! Fate: Ah... The same with Signum too. ... Caro: So, the most important part is that you went all out on each other? Huh, oh no, Erio, what should we do! If it's that the case, we haven't hit each other that much at all! Erio: Um, yes, we did. At the escalators, when Caro fell and we slammed into each other. Caro: Oh...So that's fine then? Arf: I think for you two, that's good enough.

The "burning Arisa" meme got referenced in the card battle game with a card called "Arisa the Burning".

A Certain Magical Index and Shinryaku! Ika Musume's title characters have often been noted to be very similar. Index-tan episode 3 played on this idea by giving the Fun Size Index many of Ika's characteristics. Which works on more than one level, because a fun-size Ika also has a precedent.

In Katekyo Hitman Reborn!, Hibari's bird was nicknamed "Hibird" by the fans and subsequently later used officially by the author.

Episode 7 of The Idolmaster introduces a "Nonowa" toy, based on fanmade parodies of Haruka's habit of looking up and to the right when in thought.

During the Fourth Shinobi War arc of Naruto several readers started calling Kabuto's resurrected army as "Zombie" Ninjas (technically they are not, although the fact that they come out from a summoned coffin certainly helps); later in the anime's Recap Episode 296, they are called "Zombies" by the main characters.

The "Over 9000!" meme has been referenced many times, which would just be a fandom nod to the popularity of the scene, but one DVD box set features a picture of a screaming Vegeta next to the caption "OVER 900 MINUTES OF UNCUT ACTION!", fitting the meme of putting the line against anything. Dragon Ball Z Kai used a more angry and subdued "over 8,000" for the scene in the uncut version, but for the TV broadcast version Chris Sabat decided he wasn't happy, so he went back and retook the scene with the original line and all of its hamminess intact.

The Dragon Ball SD manga (a cut-down and self-referential retelling of the original Dragon Ball) references Yamcha's death in DBZ in a scene where Oolong reflexively transforms into a Saibaman ("I was trying to think of what form could beat that guy, and I turned into this..."), which causes Yamcha to faint in fear, taking his iconic death pose.

Pretty much the whole Nunnally in Wonderland can qualify as this, for the numerous fan theories and memetic mutations that exist in the fanbase.

Somebody made a gag comic in which the Emperor delivers a speech about breastsnote A parody rewrite of his funeral speech for Clovis from episode 4, and then Norio Wakamoto, the Emperor's voice actor, made a Gag Dub of said comic and released it to the public.

"I don't understand this at all!" ("Wake ga wakaranai yo!") is a line attributed to Kyubey, spoken in a deadpan tone a few times when he fails to understand why humans would consider certain experiences or revelations traumatic. It was picked up by Fanon as a response to all the Non Sequitur Madoka online Parodies. Come Rebellion, and a mass of Incubators scream it in unison as the Magical Girls destroy their isolation field, ruining their plan to bring the Witch System back.

"Nakazawa-kun," the male student who exists only for the "teacher angrily asks how eggs should be cooked" gag, was apparently popular enough to reappear for a similar joke in Rebellion. And if you pay close attention, you'll notice he is one of the few real people in the labyrinth, along with the magical girls, Madoka's family, and a few other people who have much bigger roles than Nakazawa ever did. A brief shot at the end—edited in after the movie was out of theaters—shows him getting airlifted out by Madoka's familiars, along with Hitomi and Kyousuke.

A Funny Background Event in Fairy Tail had a minor character named Max with his pants down and a broom sticking out his rear in the wake of a party. Fans latched onto the image and Max/Broom became one of the more unanimously agreed on pairings in the manga. About 100 chapters later, a similar incident was spotted after an explosion, and it has since been common to see Max running around in the background with a broom in hand.

Many people liked to make fun of how Armin and Christa looked very similar. Come Chapter 53, he has to dress up as Christa while Jean is dressed as Eren again in order to lure out a group of kidnappers.

FUNimation decided to keep in Levi's "Big-ass trees" line from the subs that reached memetic levels in episode 18.

During the Haiyore! Nyaruko-san F OVA, Nyaruko mentions the incredibly viral line from the first season's intro (and slightly less viral line from the second season's intro) during her delusions of marrying Mahiro.

Nyaruko: "Oo" will be "Nya"! "San" will be "Pinch"!

When Chespin's first evolution was revealed many fans complained it wasn't cute enough. When Bonnie from the Pokémon anime meets a Quilladin for the first time she sounds very disappointed about its appearance.

There's also Pikachu and his love of ketchup. While the gag was only briefly used in an early Kanto episode; the fandom took to it well and still embraces it to this day. Fast-forward to theXY series; where the introductory arc with gym leader Korrina gets at autograph from Pikachu with a ketchup pawprint, and Pikachu gleefully licking the ketchup off afterward. It even got its own Image Song by her voice actress!

Morphling's fellow infamously-broken creatures, Masticore and Psychatog, got similar shout-outs: Deep Analysis shows a dissected Masticore with the flavor text "the subject appears to be broken," while a later version of Shock fulfills fan dreams everywhere by having a bolt of lightning zap the Psychatog.

Back in the old days, when the Internet was still not widely used and card lists were rare, some people talked about an ultra-rare "Throat Wolf" with, among other abilities, "firstest strike". In Visions the designers, inspired by Throat Wolf, included "Talruum Champion" which has first strike that beats other creatures' first strike.

Throat Wolf is also mentioned in the novels.

There's a card in Homelands called Heart Wolf. And a cut card in Unglued was going to be called Butt Wolf.

Unhinged had a card called "Mise," a reference to M:tG slang meaning "to get a lucky draw." There was also a "real" card called "Savage Beatings", at which point M:tG parody site Misetings accused WotC of trying too hard.

An Urban Legend says that a player in a championship game was so desperate to win they played a card called "Chaos Orb" with the ability to destroy other cards by being dropped onto the opponents field and destroying any card it touches. If you're lucky you might destroy 3 or 4 cards, but instead of simply dropping the card they shredded it and sprinkled the pieces over the opponents field, wiping it out and the judge ruled it a legal move (incarnations of the story from there vary, some say the player won and other say the opposing player called for a count of cards in the players deck). Regardless of the truth to the story, the Unglued set introduced a card called "Chaos Confetti" with the exact same abilities of "Chaos Orb", except it specifies to tear the card apart and sprinkle the pieces over the field. The Flavor Text even says "And you thought it was an urban legend."

Fake CCG cards themselves. They date to 1994, albeit in text-only format, and were the basis of the "Un" sets.

At this point, the creators lampshade infinite combos.

The My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic collectible card game references a few memes, such as Doctor Whooves. The Canterlot Nights set introduced a card based on the "Twilicane" seen in "Princess Twilight Sparkle, Part 2".

And then thanks to her the Great Lakes Avengers got their first ongoing in Marvel NOW! (2016) and we completed the meme ascension circle. Will it become a spiral? Only time will tell.

The main Marvel Universe is called "Earth-616". There's a fan rumor that it was named for the date the Fantastic Four first appeared (supposedly June 1961). This is not true (for one thing, the issue was released in August), but this numbering scheme then became used for real for several Marvel alternate Earths.

1980s Legion of Super-Heroes fandom came up with "Arm-Fall-Off Boy" as an extreme example of the sort of ludicrous characters who showed up for Legion Try-Outs. Gerard Jones then included him as the very first wannabe-Legionnaire in an issue of Secret Origins. (Legend has it Jones didn't realise Arm-Fall-Off Boy was a fan joke and didn't already exist.)

Upon being confronted by Chrysalis, Applejack and Rarity are quick to insult her, and reference the meme of Chrysalis having Swiss cheese legs.

And of course Derpy's in the comic (though not named), including being lured into a trap by a trail of muffins. Furthermore, when one of the Changelings changes into Derpy, its companion is forced to bonk it on its head to get the derped eyes just right.

In issue 2, one of the spiders is gray, has a bit of blond hair, one set of its two pairs of eyes in a wall-eyes fashion, and has a pattern of bubbles on its rear section.

Sweetie Belle as a dictionary (propagated from "The Return of Harmony") pops up in issue #3.

Hot Topic's #3 varient◊ gives up Epic Wife Throwing, which had become a fandom meme after "The Crystal Empire".

In My Little Pony Micro Series Issue #2, the 20% cooler meme is referenced in the beginning when Rainbow goes 20% faster after doing a Sonic Rainboom.

Rainbow gives Tank a "brohoof".

Rainbow pulls off a Sonic Double Rainboom. There has been a fan-made full length episode entitled "Double Rainboom" that's been in the works for a while and teased. Whether this inspired the comic's term is unclear, though its most likely a reference to the old Double Rainbow meme from YouTube (which many bronies naturally associate Rainbow Dash with).

The Giant Enemy Crab that shows up at the end of issue #13 is no doubt a nod to the "Rarity fighting a giant crab" meme.

In 1994, the Street Fighter comic, Ryu and Ken's master is named Sheng Long, following the English SNES Street Fighter II instruction manuals. This all started because of an April Fools joke.

The Super Dictionary legendarily illustrated "forty" with Lex Luthor stealing forty cakes. "And That's Terrible". Eventually a canon comic (Superman #709) revealed that, as revenge for not being allowed to enter an early invention in his high school's science fair, Lex Luthor stole forty cakes from the bake sale.

Bart Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror #15: the bootleg Bart Simpson in "Boo-tleg" is African-American and even talks about his plans to sell shirts of himself at the flea market. This is a reference to the phenomenon of bootleg Bart Simpson shirts being sold in the African-American community the early 1990s, a substantial amount of which can be seen at https://www.facebook.com/bootlegbart.

A common meme among Smurf haters is to present Papa Smurf as a fascist or communist dictator. In The Smurfs story "The Reporter Smurf", Reporter accuses Papa Smurf of being a dictator through his newspaper when Papa Smurf warns him to stop going after Smurfette with his "exclusives".

Two Tumblr memes regarding Ms. America from Young Avengers ("She's beauty, she's grace, she'll punch you in the face!" and "America, no!" "America, yes!") were used in the first issue of A-Force.

Many comic book fansites, especially the LiveJournal/Dreamwidth community "scans_daily" had a running gag of Nightwing having the most recognizable ass. An Annual issue of Batgirl (2011) had Babs recognize that ass and thought that Dick was alive, since him being presumed dead has been a thing in Grayson

A particularly infamous quote by British Prime Minister David Cameron note For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'. was picked up by the internet as sounding more like a supervillain speech, and kicked off a meme of photoshopping Cameron's words onto Doctor Doom and other comic book villains, such as here◊. In an issue of Captain Britain and the Mighty Defenders, one of Doom's minions virtually quotes the line word for word◊.

One of the infamous memes associated with Spider-Man (1967) is the "Masturbating Spider-Man" macro. The first issue of Web Warriors has Spider-Gwen discovering Spidey in that pose and references the entire meme.

Garfield Minus Garfield, the webcomic that made new comedy out of old Garfield strips by removing the title character so it seemed that Jon was a lonely delusional weirdo, was made into a book. One actually endorsed by writer Jim Davis, too, and complete with several Garfield Minus Garfields actually made by Davis himself. Turns out he's quite good at it. And shortly after, he seemed to realize that Jon did seem depressed and hopeless, so Jon/Liz was finally made canon and he was able to interact with more other human characters regularly, while the animals had their own strips — making new strips harder to convert for the webcomic, but responding well to the issues it brought up.

After Josh Fruhlinger of The Comics Curmudgeon began making jokes about the Archie newspaper comic strip being written by an antiquated mainframe computer called the "Archie Joke-Generating Laugh Unit 3000" (AJGLU-3000 for short), AJGLU-3000 references began cropping up in the strip.

One series of early Dilbert strips featured a nameless cat who showed up at Dilbert's house, harassing that character and trying to eat Ratbert. Scott Adams soon started receiving emails demanding "more Catbert," and ultimately made him a regular character.

One comic of The Far Side had a caveman teacher explaining to a class that the spikes on a stegosaurus's tail are "called the 'thagomizer'... after the late Thag Simmons". Years later, the scientific community realized they didn't have a name for the spikes on a stegosaurus's tail, and adopted "thagomizer".

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Newer versions of the Pokémon romhack Moémon have switched the Charmander line's shiny palette from black (like the canon shinies) to white in reference to the starter from Twitch Plays Moémon.

The Internet and Samuel L. Jackson insisted that the working title be kept because it had become a meme.

The line "I've had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane!" was added as service to the memetic mutation that had developed around the film before its release.

There was a promo for a TV airing of The Wizard of Oz that used the song "The Great Gig In The Sky" by Pink Floyd, referencing the fan-synchronization of Oz with the album the song comes from, The Dark Side of the Moon. Sometime in the mid-'90s, one of the Turner networks aired Oz with Dark Side as an alternate audio track (such tracks are usually reserved for Spanish dubbing if available).

"Not a lot of people know that" was a Beam Me Up, Scotty! line for Michael Caine, as it was from Peter Sellers' impression of him rather than anything he actually said in a movienote Apparently, Caine would recite trivia from the Guinness Book of World Records when on set but off camera, and part of Sellers' impersonation was based on this... until the film Educating Rita where Michael Caine's character was given the line to say.

Figwit the elf from The Lord of the Rings film series. A background extra played by Bret McKenzie (of Flight of the Conchords) who appears in a shot following Frodo's acceptance of the ring (the name standing for Frodo Is Great... Who Is That?), the nickname was eventually used in the series of Topps trading cards featuring the character. Peter Jackson specifically brought him back for Return of the King because of the popularity of the meme, even giving him a couple lines this time around. He's back for The Hobbit, now officially named Lindir and portrayed as Elrond's right hand man. The meme was also referenced in the flavor text of his Decipher card as a "nickname".

"Team Edward" and "Team Jacob" were Fan Nicknames for factions of Twilight fans that have since ended up ubiquitous enough to get on official merchandise, if you want a Team Edward t-shirt or a Team Jacob bag. Or a Team Tyler's Van shirt.

In the first Hellraiser, Doug Bradley's character was known simply as "Lead Cenobite". The name "Pinhead" was a nickname given to him by fans of the movie. It wasn't until the second movie that Pinhead became his official name.

Agent Phil Coulson of the 2012 The Avengers movie gained more than a little popularity after his death, sparking the Coulson Lives Project, operating under the hashtag #CoulsonLives. So Coulson was brought back from the dead (with suggestions at suspicious circumstances) for the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television series... with the aforementioned hashtag being integral to the marketing.

A common complaint in the fanbase for post-Avengers movies like Iron Man 3 and Captain America: The Winter Soldier was "why doesn't the hero call in the Avengers to deal with that big problem?" In Ant-Man, when the big problem is explained and Hank Pym and Scott Lang discuss how to solve it, Lang asks that same question.

Prior to the seventh book, Draco Malfoy's family home had never appeared or been named, though it was implied to be some kind of castle or mansion. Fans assigned it the name "Malfoy Manor", which became ubiquitous in fanfiction before eventually being made canon in Deathly Hallows.

The infamous difficulty of the Redemption mission (Tour 1, Mission 4) in X-Wing led to its appearance in the very first chapter of Michael Stackpole's X-Wing novels. As an infamously difficult training scenario for Rebel pilots (so it also doubles as a Shout-Out to the Kobayashi Maru Scenario).

The Wheel of Time: In The Gathering Storm, Elaida's Aes Sedai faction is called loyalists, which was previously a fan nickname.

In-Universe example from Diane Duane's Star Trek novel The Romulan Way. The Romulan spirituality of the Elements (something resembling animism with a heavy dose of the concept of karma) actually began as a Internet messageboard joke as the proto-Romulans prepared to leave Vulcan. It started to get discussed seriously and then gradually had its original meaning forgotten over the subsequent 1,600-plus years.

The Queen's Thief books by Megan Whalen Turner were called that by its fans, since there wasn't an official title for all of them. With the 20-year reprinting and announcement of the fifth book, Turner and her publishers have officially dubbed the books the Queen's Thief series.

The fandom's name for the Thirteen-Foreman pairing, Foreteen (or Fourteen), was actually used by House himself.

Another one picked up and spoken by House himself was the fan term "ducklings" to refer to whichever 3+ doctors are working on his team.

Originally, The X-Files character was named "Cigarette-Smoking Man" in the scripts. But no one ever called him by name. So the fans started calling him "Cancer Man". By Season 3, so did Mulder.

In Lost, fans gave the smoke monster the nickname 'Smokey'. In season 6, Sawyer referred to him by this name (justified by the fact that Sawyer gives everyone creative nicknames).

Star Trek: Enterprise: There was a recurring mysterious time traveller pulling the strings of several plots points in the show, and was never identified and given a name. Fans often referred to him with the name Future Guy. Then the creators of the show also used it. (Although the term never actually appeared in the show.)

Glee'spairing names Finchel, Puckelberry, and Furt showed up all in Episode 2X08. It was titled Furt. The pairing names continued to show up throughout the series, including the names for the more obscure fanon couples (i.e. Faberry). At the big double wedding of season 6, the characters hand out OTP hats.

For a Discovery Channel contest, Awkward Zombie creator Katie Tiedrich created a MythBusters fan-short about firing a pig from a cannon made entirely out of duct tape. The pig thing isn't too implausible, as the 'Busters do use pig carcasses as human analogues, but the "duct tape cannon" seemed like pure ridiculousness. The short didn't win the contest...but was so popular elsewhere that the Mythbusters themselves saw it and loved it. Come the Duct Tape Special, guess what Kari, Tori, and Grant actually made?note They didn't fire a pig, but they did fire a bright-orange cannonball.

Fringe The fandom names for the alternate Walter and Olivia, "Walternate" (prior to his reveal) and "Fauxlivia" (following her introduction), have both been canonized by the show.

The show was the focus of an uproar whereby Cookie Monster was purported to have drastically reduced his cookie intake, or even given them up altogether and been renamed the Veggie Monster. note The actual incriminating scene was of Cookie Monster listening to a song about how "Cookies are a sometimes food", not saying it himself, after which he pointed out that "right now is sometimes", and ate a cookie. In any case, over the course of the whole show, he's more of an Extreme Omnivore for whom cookies are a Trademark Favorite Food; he's happily eaten vegetables, fruit, and numerous random objects. The show has referenced this firestorm on a few occasions. In one sketch, Cookie Monster is about to eat some fruit when interviewer Matt Lauer confronts him about why he "doesn't like cookies", to which the monster replies "You members of media blow story waaaay out of proportion!" In another scene, after eating some vegetables, he said "But remember, me not Veggie Monster. Me still Cookie Monster. Just for record. Me got reputation to think of."

Many people seem to think that Ernie and Bert got their names from the cab driver and the police officer in It's a Wonderful Life. Jim Henson, the creator of said characters, had said this was just a coincidence. But then in an Elmo Saves Christmas special, Ernie and Bert walk past a TV set showing It's a Wonderful Life, right at the scene where George calls out "Bert! Ernie! What's the matter with you two guys?" The two Muppets then look at each other, confused.

Originally in the Bonus Round on Wheel of Fortune, a contestant would have to pick five consonants and a vowel to assist in solving the bonus puzzle within a time limit. By the late 1980s, almost every contestant was picking R, S, T, L, N and E in that order, because those letters are the most common. The rules were finally changed in October 1988 to give those letters automatically — in that order — and then ask for three more consonants and a vowel (but also making the puzzles harder and slashing the time limit).

You Tuber swedemason made a Stupid Statement Dance Mix about MasterChef, particularly judge Gregg Wallace and his line, "I like the buttery biscuit base". The song duly went viral and even made the UK Top 40 charts. Later, when he appeared on TV magic show The Magicians, Wallace took the opportunity during his illusion to enthusiastically quote the song, much to the joy of the audience.

Also with regards to Nate fans have been joking about how many of his love interests are cougars. In an early season five episode Chuck Bass of all people turns to Nate for advice on seduction since the woman he has his eyes on is... a cougar. Chuck claims Nate "speaks old lady".

Also, in one episode Jess gets mistaken for an attractive doctor's date, whom he knows only through her dating profile picture... and her name is Katy.

"Jesus Christ, Marie. They're minerals" became associated withBreaking Bad despite Hank not actually saying the line itself during his mineral collecting phase. He does however say the first sentence in the Season 5 episode "Confessions"

The "I am the one who knocks!" meme got a shout out in the comedic "alternate" ending.

Top Gear: The presenters' use of the term "Flappy Paddle Gearbox" to describe Semi-Automatic Transmission has led to many car manufacturers and reviewers adopting the term themselves.

Cheers: In the episode "What is... Cliff Clavin?", Cliff goes onJeopardy!, but despite a runaway lead of $22,000, he loses by wagering everything in Final Jeopardy and answering "Who are three people who have never been in my kitchen?" Cliff's answer has frequently been used as a stock answer to questions that stump contestants, the earliest example occurring in the 1990 College Tournament by eventual winner Michael Thayer, and Alex Trebek frequently warns players not to "pull a Clavin"note That is, overbet in FJ. The categories from "Cliff's Dream Board" were also featured in a 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions game.

From Sweden to UK we will bring our song Australia, USA, and people of Hong Kong They have heard this meme all around the world So come and move your hips, sing ua a a Look at YouTube clips, do it la la la You and me can sing this melody

When Haddaway performed "What Is Love?" during his appearance on the short-lived show Hit Me Baby One More Time, the backup choreography included the Roxbury headbop.

In Brazil, a video involving fans of Restart complaining after a cancelled autograph session became popular - especially one of said angry fans, a girl named Georgia Massa, saying it was a "puta falta de sacanagem", a contradictory phrase that could be translated as "fucking lack of unfairness" or This Is Unforgivable!note although "sacanagem" is best translated as "screwing". Then the band and a comedian created a song based on that phrase, and Massa got to meet the band (much to the jealousy of other rabid fangirls). The boys, in turn, wrote the song "Pra Você Lembrar" in order to apologize for the cancelled autograph session.

After Camron's infamous U MAD appearance on The O' Reilly Factor, www.u-mad.net started up as an official Camron merch store.

Similarly, Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Bad Moon Rising" misheard "There's a bad moon on the rise" as "there's a bathroom on the right" led to the band singing the mondegreen live several times.

And again on the ascended mondegreen meme (although unintentional), Clutch's The Regulator has a its opening line "I see a lantern burning" oft-misheard by fans as "I see Atlanta burning." To the point that one of the reasons The Walking Dead producers (the show it based in Atlanta) used it as a credits closing song in an episode was THEY heard it wrong, too.

The Spinto Band stumbled upon a mash-up that combined their "Oh Mandy" with Rich Boy's "Throw Some D's". They liked it enough that in live performances of the song, they'd sometimes replace the lyrics to the bridge with a few lines from "Throw Some D's".

In the 70s, when The Angels sang "Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again?", crowds answered, "No way, get fucked, fuck off" - which The Angels incorporated into their performances.

Mexican party anthem "El Final" (the end) has the line "te veo besándote con otro" ("I see you kissing/making out with someone else") which is always answered with a "Que poca madre!" when played in a bar ("What little mother" literally, but it it's an expression used when someone wronged someone else, like saying "you bastard!"). Nowadays, most DJs will turn down the volume when playing it at a bar, party, whatever. Albums compilations add the a silent second for people to scream it, karaoke machines show the line on the screen, and both original band Rostros Ocultos or anyone covering it will either stop playing for a second and raise the mike for people to say it, or just have the band scream it while the singer stops. Shortly, the line became part of the song.

There was a bootleg remix of Madonna's "Holiday" that mashed it up with Stardust's "Music Sounds Better with You". When Mad'House covered the former, they interpolated the bassline and instrumentation of the latter.

Besides being essentially nothing but this trope, Vocaloid has a recursive-meme example. Someone made a popular Miku cover of "Ievan Polkka," better known as "that leekspin song," complete with her own spinning (waving?) leek. It wasn't long before leeks started showing up in Miku's official artworks and figurines, and they soon became her Trademark Favorite Food. The Uncanny Valley restyled "Hachune Miku" in the video has also generated a lot of merchandise.

During live performances of "Living Next Door to Alice" by New World, after the titular line the audience would often reply "Alice? Who the fuck is Alice!?" When British band Smokie covered the song, they also made a parody version featuring comedian Roy 'Chubby' Brown shouting the aforementioned line at the appropriate times in the song.

Shortly after the episode of South Park where Randy is revealed to be the real Lorde premiered, a video was posted to Twitter of Lorde herself singing the "I am Lorde, ya ya ya" song that Randy sang in the episode.

When Trans-Siberian Orchestra released their song "Wizards in Winter" (off The Lost Christmas Eve) as a single, the artwork consisted solely of a shot of the house of Carson Williams, the electrical engineer who used the song in a Christmas light display that became a YouTube sensation in Christmas 2005.

Sunstroke Project had one epic sax riff in the song Run Away, written for the 2010 Eurovision contest, that brought them fame from Memetic Mutation (specifically, the Epic Sax Guy meme). The band embraced the fame the meme brought them, and released a song centered around the riff and called it (what else) Epic Sax as an acknowledgement in 2011.

One of Prince's later singles, "Breakfast Can Wait", featured not Prince on the cover, but rather Dave Chappelle impersonating him from the famous "Charlie Murphy's True Hollywood Stories" sketch.

During a WCW segment, Chris Jericho, to prove a point that no one in any authority actually cared about what he was doing, began reading from a list of "1004 Holds" one of which was the "Moss-Covered, Three-Handled Family Gradenza," a phrase he saw in the 1971 TV adaption of The Cat in the Hat. Paul Heyman liked the name so much he gave it to Perry Saturn's swinging fisherman's suplex finisher.

During the (first Smackdown) feud between John Cena and Brock Lesnar, Cena once referred to Lesnar as a "vanilla gorilla," a common internet nickname for Lesnar.

After Glory By Honor VII: The Final Countdown(the subtitle itself was an ascended meme), the ROH fans began chanting "Twinkies" at Austin Aries during his matches. At Supercard Of Honor V, Aries offered his long time rival Delirious a peace offering in the form of...golden snack cakes.

During a WWE sketch showing WWE personalities at a party, commentator Michael Cole went the Ham and Cheese route and referenced the fandom meme of his calling moves as "VINTAGE ______" by yelling that he is eating VINTAGE SHRIMP!

Cole and other announcers, notably the AWESOME Matt Striker, have openly referenced and mocked the memetic nature of "VINTAGE".

Darren Young, at one point, referenced WWE internet fans' penchant for calling him "Black John Cena." Cena also paid it back during one of his promos as well.

On ''WWE NXT, the term "Future Endeavored" has been used at least twice (by The Miz in the first season and Cody Rhodes in the second).

The "Miz Girl", a little girl whose reaction to The Miz becoming WWE Champion became a meme within hours, then an Ascended Meme a week later when the Miz pointed it out in his celebration, giving her the official name of the Miz Girl.

Same thing with the "Shocked Undertaker Fan." He was interviewed on WWE.com shortly after his appearance.

In the "Lakers vs. Nuggets" episode of Raw, Batista made his entrance with a basketball in his hands. This is a reference to his "Basketballs...don't hold grudges!" quote on Smackdown.

WWE has pretty much stolen the spotlight out of this lately, such as "The Genesis of the McGillicutty" speech and "He spilled my diet soda!"

During NXT Season 4, fans have compared Rookie Byron Saxton to Carlton Banks. In most recent episodes, this has been lampshaded by the other rookies, Matt Striker, and even his (new) pro, Dolph Ziggler.

On the 900 episode of Raw, Edge mocked Sheamus and called him Beaker. The fans took it and ran with it. Fast forward to the October 31st 2011 show, where the Muppets are guest hosts, and Sheamus and Beaker meet.

WWE wrestler Zack Ryder was somehow able to turn himself into a meme thanks to his home-made YouTube show "Z! True Long Island Story". His show frequently bemoaned the fact that he was being ignored by WWE, often using double entendres aimed at Smart Marks. Eventually WWE took notice of his show's popularity, and Zack became a kind of Running Joke on TV about... how WWE wouldn't push Zack Ryder on television. (And ironically, in this role he received one hell of a good push.)

When The Rock returned to WWE, he mocked John Cena on, among other things, his wardrobe, calling him "a big fat bowl of Fruity Pebbles". Not long after, Cena helped promote Fruity Pebbles by having his likeness posted on the cereal's boxes. But that's not all...

CM Punk, during his feud with Vince McMahon in 2011, grabbed a headset during a brawl with Vince and screamed "WHAT A MANEUVER!" before driving Vince's face into the announce table in reference to Vince's infamous style of commentary from the 90s.

The naming of the tag team of Daniel Bryan and Kane was put up to a fan vote... in which all of the choices were pre-existing fan nicknames for the two, including "Team Friendship" and the winning "Hell No".

Speaking of Daniel Bryan, his "YES! YES! YES!" chants were subject to this when fans caught on to it and started using it for just about every in-ring event. This would lead to WWE creating a shirt featuring the phrase, along with a whole slew of "YES! YES! YES!" merchandise.

In 2012, Taeler Hendrix shed her jackets for more elaborate ring gear, started dying her hair a more vibrant shade of red and took on a much more manipulative, seductive demeanor leading fans to compare her to Tiara from Shamanic Princess or Poison Ivy from Batman. "Poison Princess" eventually became her official Red Baron in The House Of Truth and Ring Of Honor.

In 2013, a fan used a bubble gun during one of Emma's entrances. Following that, WWE made a bubble gun a regular part of her entrances and added bubbles to her video packages.

The "AND HIS NAME IS JOHN CENA!!!" meme became completely canon when Cena collabotated with telecom company Cricket Wireless for one of their promotional materials.

Roleplays

On MSF High Forum, 'firewood' was not a racial slur, but was used to describe ironically non-flammable Legion. Well, after the GM got a hang of it, it became a racial slur.

Tabletop RPG

Fantasy Flight Games seems to love ascending memes in its line of Warhammer 40,000 spin-off RP Gs. Dark Heresy acknowledged the "Love Can Bloom" fanfic by featuring a quote from one of its main characters and a picture of a Vindicare Assassin watching a Farseer, Adept Grendel (a scholar character who killed several Daemons and an Ork Warboss through luck of the dice) was referenced in one of the same game's supplements by an Inquisitor's document discussing his exploits. Then they acknowledged a fan story about a psyker who escaped being fuel for the Golden Throne by becoming a commissar's assistant, and to cap it off, they featured a quote from a Commissar Daniel Sterne ordering the crew of a Basilisk Artillery Tank to ram the enmy in Only War, a reference to fan character Commissar Dan whose quirk is the same thing (the quote even ends with a Curse Cut Short of Dan's Catch Phrase).

Video Games

While the developers were answering questions regarding the new gameplay features of the then-upcoming Max Payne 2 on the 3DRealms forum, one user asked, "What about moving?" No one knows what he meant, but it became a meme fast enough for a bit recorded for the game involving two mobsters.

"But what about moving?" "What about moving? You put one foot infronta the other."

Further expanding on Remedy instances: a running fan joke was that in the first Max Payne, character model and writer Sam Lake had what was labelled a "constipated scowl" for the character's face. The first game after the Max Payne series, horror thriller Alan Wake, has Lake appear in a cameo on a in-game TV segment where he "does the scowl" when the host requests it. This was then compounded in a cross-series reference in Quantum Break, which gives Lake yet another cameo wherein he does the same face again.

One of the one liners in Duke Nukem Forever is "I'm gonna kill you old style", referencing the infamous Ventrilo Harassment video where the admin threatens the Troll that she will do just that, to the confusion of everyone listening.

The Single Player DLC references the spamming of BALLSBALLSBALLSBALLS in the meme, when a Terminator-esque robot makes you repeat it in order for you to pass off as a Duke clone.

The Leeroy Jenkins video was honored in a card of the man in the World of Warcraft TCG, a figure in the collectible miniatures game, an achievement in Wrath of the Lich King with a title to go with it, a legendary card in Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, and finally appeared as an NPC in Warlords of Draenor, still going after the same piece of gear.

When Onyxia got revamped for 80, the new achievements included "More DOTs!" and "Many whelps! Handle it!", which are orders shouted to the heavens in the popular Onyxia Wipe Video. Onyxia also has a card in Hearthstone, one that spawns enough whelps to reach the minion limit. The Raid Leader card also has dialogue referencing the video.

Thorim's introduction speech became memetic, specifically his way of saying "in the mountains". A later boss has a line to mock this when he kills a player.

Tyrannus: "Perhaps you should've stayed...in the mountains!"

Kael'Thas' "Tempest Keep was merely a setback" greeting quickly became a meme for any recurring boss. When you encounter a whole trio of those in Icecrown Citadel (former blood elves, no less), Valanar, the boss of a Borean tundra quest, declares that "Naxxanar was merely a setback". In Cataclysm, the Hogger boss in the Stormwind Stockades also makes reference to this meme, yelling "Forest just setback!" on aggro. Maar in Starcraft II also says "Merely a temporary setback" after being defeated.

To lesser extent, Illidan's "YOU ARE NOT PREPARED!" If you talk to him in the past while wielding his signature legendary weapons, he will comment "You seem prepared". The battlemaster at Valhallas will also yell "YOU WERE NOT PREPARED!" if you wiped in one of the encounters.

Since Death Knights like to use a macro for Death Grip with a yell of GET OVER HERE!, they added that line for Nefarian's call for Death Knights where he copied that ability.

Hogger, a level 11 mob infamous for being hard to kill (because he was for many players the first elite mob they fought), was upgraded to a dungeon boss in Cataclysm. The quest that has you kill him apparently includes the line "No one can destroy him". He also makes appearances in Hearthstone as a tutorial boss and Legendary minion.

Ragnaros' infamous "Too soon! You have awakened me too soon!" line is used by Zepik the Gorloc Hunter, one of your Wolvar liaisons in Scholazar Basin. Zepik says other adventurers have told him stories of their exploits, which is how he heard the line (and some other well-known boss quotes).

The Ragnar-Os meme (a joke cover for a cereal themed after the raid boss Ragnaros) has been acknowledged by Blizzard with a raid achievement called "Ragnar-Os".

Gamon was sort of a reverse Hogger; famous for getting killed all the time for no reason (he was the only NPC in Orgrimmar to be attackable, and had to be weak to not cause trouble). Like Hogger, he got beefed up in Cataclysm... becoming a level 85 Elite that required a large group to kill. Gamon Took a Level in Badass after taking all those beatings...

And as of the final patch of Mists, Gamon is now a level 90 elite with as much health as some raid bosses, has a voice actor and character, and was trained by and canonically lands the killing blow on General Nazgrim. Fans have managed to make a one-off NPC go from a joke to a major lore character.

A level 80 orc hunter, Tednug, and his pet Scratchfever, wander the road between Orgrimmar and Razor Hill. They are characters in the player-written forum game You Awaken In Razor Hill. Tednug is a contraction of the character's actual name, Tednugent, presumably for copyright reasons.

Chuck Norris' Memetic Badass status was immortalized in a "What's your game?" television ad which states that World of Warcraft has over ten million players...because Chuck Norris allows them to live! He is seen giving roundhouse kicks to dozens of players, punching the Whale Sharknote which has millions of HP and requires a raid group to kill, OR kiting for 20-30 minutes in content-appropriate gear and fighting in the Barrensnote So-called "Barrens chat" consisted of a great deal of inane babble from bored players, with Chuck Norris Facts being one of the most prevalent running themes.

A running joke about paladins in vanilla was that their PvP strategy consisted solely of the "bubble-hearth" - popping Divine Shield (often called a "bubble" among the fandom) making them immune to damage and using their Hearthstone to teleport to safety. Blizzard later added the Glyph of Righteous Retreat, which lets them hearth in half the time when bubbled. (This was done specifically to allow bubble-hearthing, as the duration of Divine Shield had been reduced to be shorter than the cast time for the Hearthstone normally is.)

The August 2015 patch for Hearthstone modified the "Finding Opponent" wheel to include an entry named 'Roach Boy'. The developers added this in reference to a player who was subjected to especially extreme and unusual verbal abuse after a lucky win, who posted his experience in a massively popular Reddit thread.

The Confession glyph causes players to "confess" pre-set lines, mostly things players should not do but often do such as annoying others with Leap of Faith.

In the first few years when levelling was a slow, difficult process it was common practice for players to celebrate by saying "Ding!" in the zone or guild chat. Bloodlord Mandokir gains a level when he kills players and has a chance of yelling "Ding!" For added amusement, another boss yells back congratulations.

Rhonin's "Citizens of Dalaran..." speech has been a source of frequent mockery by players for how often he says it (during Wrath it was quite rare, but later the quest could be done solo and it happened all the time). The Legion expansion, which brought Dalaran back as the main hub, gave this a nod: in an early cutscene, Khadgar shouts out a speech in Dalaran, opening with "Citizens of Azeroth!". Fortunately his speech is shorter than Rhonin's, and contained in the cutscene, so the only person who hears it is the one doing the quest. When the expac was in Beta, there were also plans for a new Dalaran-based reputation called the Citizens of Dalaran, though unfortunately it ended up being scrapped.

The "Chuck Norris facts" inspired memes about High Overlord Saurfang's legendary badassery have endured for years. In Legion prelaunch, Saurfang became the racial leader of the orcs, and as such is now the objective a PvP achievement for Alliance players. However, where other racial leader achievements call for the leader's death at the player's hands, Saurfang's achievement requires the player to "damage [him] until he humors you by pretending to die".

The Overwatch fan community created "Gremlin D.Va", a Super-Deformed version of D.Va obsessed with Doritos and Mountain Dew, to poke fun at her career as a professional gamer. Blizzard eventually added a new taunt for D.Va in which she plays video games in her mech while eating and drinking Brand X Doritos and Mountain Dew, though without being Super-Deformed. So far it is the game's only emote of Legendary value/rarity. Additionally, Doritos can be seen around her grave on her Halloween victory pose.

Similarly, the "Dad: 76" meme, which portrays Soldier: 76 as a grumpy, overbearing Team Dad, has all but ascended. A Weekly Brawl which restricted character choice to only Soldier: 76 took place during the same week as Father's Day, his favorite sport was revealed to be golf during the Summer 2016 Olypmics event, and he has vocal taunts like "Get off my lawn!"

The Halloween 2016 update gave Ana an emote where she gives out candy, referring to the "grandma candy" fan-comic which had been retweeted by the official Overwatch Twitter account, and of course nods to Ana's role as grandmother in the overarching "Overfamily" meme.

During the Sombra ARG, when players were still searching for clues, Jeff Kaplan said "All of the Sombra stuff goes over my head," which they took a little too literally and assumed it was a clue. After some investigating, a strange graphical artifact was discovered from the Dorado map's sky, and fans were scrambling to decode it, including one fan who made a suggestion to make music from it. Sadly, it turns out the "skycode" wasn't part of the ARG at all (it was most likely simply a graphical compression artifact). This digression seems to have caught on with the devs, who not only included it in Sombra's debut (during a Blip Vert meant to communicate her hacking the keynote presentation), but have given her a spray◊ (imgur link) and an emote (Reddit link). The latter of which appears to double as her "laughter" emote.

Nemesis, the eternal mastermind and Xanatos Speed Chess player, is pegged by the playerbase as the source for many things, including substituting "It's a Nemesis plot" for A Wizard Did It. The game developers ascended the meme with two loading screen tips: "It's all a Nemesis plot." and "Not everything is a Nemesis plot."

After a particularly popular 2008 April Fools' Day new post, "Freem!" caught on, often with the image attached. A loading screen tip in the game now reads simply, "Freem!" The nickname for the development team after the team was cut by ~75% in 2006 also became "Freem Fifteen".

Heroes of Newerth: TOO BAD ITS ME BLACKSMITH was so popular that the developers used it for their pre-purchase advertisements on their website.

In Final Fantasy IV, the original Super NES translation gave the meme "You Spoony Bard!" The line was so beloved that Squaresoft/Square-Enix kept it in all re-releases when the rest of the script was re-translated, and an Author Avatar of the developers in the DS version jokes about the line being kept when other terms were changed. The line has also appeared in a few other Final Fantasy games as a running joke.

After Dissidia: Final Fantasy came out, many jokes ensued about Exdeath's obsession with the VOID. Cue the prequel Dissidia 012, and numerous characters mocking Exdeath's obsession and working the word "void" into their pre-battle quotes to him.

A popular machinima for the first game called "Real Men" became popular not long after its release. Dissidia 012 brought us Kain Highwind, a famous Ensemble Dark Horse and Memetic Badass, as a playable character. He brought along this gem—"I'm about to show you pathetic mockeries the difference between you, and a real man!"

"Sheng Long" originated in a mistranslation of Ryu's Victory Quote in the Street Fighter II arcade game.note "Sheng Long" is the Chinese reading of the Shoryu in Shoryuken. The legend was elaborated on by an April Fools' joke created by Electronic Gaming Monthly in 1992, which alleged that he was the unlockable True Final Boss of the game. The manual of the SNES version actually named Sheng Long as Ryu and Ken's master, and though that ended up in Canon Discontinuity like most manuals of the time, the legend of Sheng Long would be confirmed in all but name. In 1994, Akuma, brother to Ryu and Ken's master, was introduced in Super Street Fighter II Turbo as the True Final Boss, with an unlocking procedure and red fireball attack recalling EGM's idea of Sheng Long. Finally, in 2008, Gouken, Ryu and Ken's master himself, was confirmed for Street Fighter IV, and fans were astonished to find that Gouken had every single move that Sheng Long was stated to have. "You must defeat Sheng Long to stand a chance", indeed!

You even get a special title for beating the first challenge with Gouken that says "Also Known as Sheng Long"

And one of his Super win quotes is, obviously, "You must defeat me to stand a chance!"

And in Super Street Fighter IV, Ken makes a peculiar reference to [1]◊ in his new win quote.

British-based gaming magazine Ngamer also had an article on the 3DS version of SSFIV with the strapline "Now witness flowchart Ken in 3D!"

The very end of the Heroes and Heralds trailer for Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 also uses it.

A certain DLC costume for Ryu in the fifth game instantly gained traction amongst fans due to his attractive looks. He gained the Fan Nickname "Hot Ryu" however Capcom didn't seem to have intentionally made him a Mr. Fanservice character and was confused on the reaction. A few weeks later and it seems they've grown to accept the idea. There is a special edition of the game exclusive to Japan that comes with both Ryu and Chun-Li's alternate costumes, as well as a new box cover that features both of these "hot" costumes prominently. What's it called? "The Hot Package."

Another one for the fifth game: How does Bison respond with the sight of his minions fighting each other to death? "This is delicious entertainment!"

Probably the most famous of these is Ermac. A counter in MK1's option menu, right under "Reptile Battles," listed the number of "Ermacs" — short for "error macros" — that have appeared, leading players to speculate about the existence of a hidden fighter named "Ermac." Mortal Kombat II deliberately fueled similar speculation by showing a counter for "Kano Transformations," which never happened in that game. When Ultimate MK3 was released, Ermac was made into an unlockable character. He's made frequent appearances since then.

In Mortal Kombat 3, Nightwolf's Friendship has him transforming into Raiden and saying "I've never seen a Kano transformation," which was a memetic response to rumors that Shang Tsung could do that in Mortal Kombat 2 (again, blame the arcade audit counters).

Mortal Kombat 9 is said to be dedicated partially to bringing as many of these Epileptic Trees to life, including but not limited to: Skarlet, "feeding the trees" in the Living Forest (an Urban Legend of Zelda until it first became possible in Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks) and "nudealities" (in the form of Mileena's secret third outfit).

A PlayDota forum user, CrimsonQueso, wrote a concise and hilarious guide to Leoric, the Skeleton King - in all caps. In DotA 2, Ostarion the Wraith King (Leoric reskinned and renamed) has several voice lines referencing the original guide, including this one (and caps-locked in in-game captions to boot):

(upon buying Divine Rapier, the highest damage item in the game) Oh, Rapier. NOW YOUR KING IS BALLING OUT OF CONTROL!

(on buying Armlet of Mordiggian) I NOW HAVE ALL THE SEXY.

(at the start of a match) I'LL HELP MY WEAK AND PUNY ALLIES WHERE I CAN.

Ever since the commercial for Shamwow! become popular on the internet, people have been comparing Vince Offer to the Scout. As of one update to the game, The Scout's in-game dialogue includes no less than 3 quotes from the commercial. "No other class gonna do that!" Even the website made to chronicle the update makes a Shamwow! reference or two.

The Spy update also gave us the "FYI I Am A Spy" achievement which is unlocked by killing an enemy Medic that has just healed you.

The Spy update announcement, in the form of a mail-order catalog, featured an item called the "Crab walking kit". This is a reference to an in-game bug which causes the spy to walk very strangely when certain conditions are met, and is a common pastime amongst spies not about their backstabbing business.

Also with the Spy update comes as a new taunt for the spy's cigarette case that pops up randomly and has him pose like a crab and snap his hands like claws.

The Sandvich; fans had been suggesting its incorporation into the game since its first appearance in "Meet the Scout".

Then, of course, there's the disembodied voice of the announcer. Disembodied, that is until a fan drew her. And then it became official. (They even hired that specific fan to draw her!)

The Fan Nickname "crocket" (a rocket that rolls a Critical Hit, infamous for being especially devastating) is referenced by a Soldier achievement ("Crockets are such BS" for randomly firing two in a row) and a Heavy achievement ("Crock Block", for surviving a a direct hit from one, which is only possible when at full normal health or overhealed).

The term "Demoknight" (a Demoman that uses unlockable weapons to focus on melee attacks) is referenced by an item set called "One Thousand and One Demoknights".

In Diablo there was a fan spoof of a hidden cow level that did not exist. It shows up in Diablo II. That prompted a number of fan spoofs, including a secret bunny level in the hopes that they would show up in Diablo III.

This was later referenced in Starcraft, made by the same company (Blizzard), in which the cheat to skip a level instantly in campaign mode was "there is no cow level".

And in Starcraft II, "Terrible terrible damage" (a Verbal Tic-like line from the "Battle Reports") is not only a cheat code in game, but is also said by General Horace Warfield.

Punch-Out!!: "Hey Mac baby, I'm going to go for a ride on your bike!" For those not in the know, it's referring to the YTMND fad "Nigga Stole My Bike", where Doc Louis riding along on a bicycle while Little Mac trains is reinterpreted as Little Mac chasing after Doc.

Blasto, the first hanar Spectre. Started as a joke made by one of the devs in response to questions regarding new companions in Mass Effect 2. Ended up having a movie made about him, complete with the line:

Leads to a hilarious scene in the third game's Citadel DLC, where Shepard and Javik are shanghaied into acting in a Blasto movie, which goes rapidly south after Shepard gets into an argument about the accuracy of the film with the director and Javik attacks their vorcha actor.

The term "quad" as slang for krogan testicles (they have four). Used where humans would say "pair", as in, "You've got a quad, Shepard." Originated on the forums, appeared everywhere in Mass Effect 2.

"I'm Garrus Vakarian, and this is now my FAVORITE spot on the Citadel!"

In the third game, there is a mission where the jellyfish-like Hanar ambassador is revealed to be a spy for the Reapers. At the denouement, Shepard will chew out the ambassador, using a popular line from Mass Effect:

Niftu Cal, the drugged Volus "Biotic God" from the second game, is heavily referenced in the description of the Volus Adept character in the multiplayer mode of Mass Effect 3. The gold-level biotic challenge is also called "Biotic God" and uses a biotic Volus as its icon.

The phrase "assuming direct control", memorably used by Harbinger in 2 and a popular line with the fanbase, made it into a Codex entry in 3.

The Citadel DLC pretty much exists for referencing as many fandom memes as possible.

Javik: Where is the airlock, so that I may throw you out of it?

Shepard: Do I really sound like that? (a bit later) Maybe it's I should go. I should go. I should go.

Garrus: I don't suppose you need anything around here... calibrated? Yeah, okay, maybe I should stop saying that word, but only if Liara stops saying "By the goddess."

A couple of varren in the Citadel DLC are named "Kroger" and "Nice Beans", references to the Bioware According To Mom tumblr's names for krogan and Garrus (the latter started with Saren being mutilated into "sour beans" and kind of went weird from there).

In the second game Udina asks if the words, "political shitstorm" mean anything. About a year later Kevin Rudd described being caught at a strip club as such.

Many Touhou doujin artists portrayed Utsuho Reiuji's encased arm as an Arm Cannon after her first appearance, but it was never actually used that way. However, later in Hisoutensoku, Utsuho has the ability Beam Spam.

In the fangame Riverbed Soul Saver, one boss (Ruri) is depicted upside-down and completely covered with power-weakening seals, yet she's the Wake-Up Call Boss anyway. Fans joked that she could be the Phantasm boss if her seals were removed and she was fighting seriously. Come a later update, the game actually added a Phantasm stage, with a right-side-up sealless Ruri. Though she's only the midboss, albeit a very challenging midboss.

According to legend, DDRMAX2 originally had the correct title for Little Boy (Boy Oh Boy Mix) at the beta location test, but after a fansite's embarrassing typo of "Boy On Boy Mix" turned into a meme, Konami staff thought it was funny enough to insert the error into the game itself. In reality, this typo was actually made by the dance music label that DDR games used at the time.

Guybrush: "Grog XD. Heh, it must be that new high energy Grog that all the kids drink these days!

There was a comedy thread on a Civilization forum calling for giant death robots in Civ V. The Giant Death Robot is now an actual endgame unit in the latter.

In Civ IV, the practice of jacking up a city's culture output (usually via Great Artist) to quickly acquire territory (especially territory belonging to other civilizations) was dubbed "Culture Bombing" in the fandom. In Civ V, the Great Artist has a special ability named "Culture Bomb" which also expands the Civilization's territory.

In the first game, all civilizations had the same odds of deciding to use nukes. Gandhi making such threats◊ became a meme, and in V, he is explicitly set to use them more than any other leader. He always could use nukes, but now he always does as the meme suggests.

The specific meme refers to a glitch in the first civ, where Gandhi's chance to use nukes was actually set to 0, but taking a specific bonus reduces the chance all Civs would use nukes, which would roll back Gandhi's chance to use nukes to the highest value of the variable, rather than a negative number.

With Rock Band having such a massive backlog of available music to play, some gamers are noticing a trend in Rock Band's tracklist, namely that Harmonix seems insistent on adding as much music from bands that Dave Grohl has been involved with (Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Them Crooked Vultures, Tenacious D et al.) as possible, giving the game the nickname Dave Grohl Band. Rock Band 3 acknowledged this by having the achievement "Dave Grohl Band", for playing any five songs from bands featuring Dave Grohl.

IFC Yipes, the man responsible for the aforementioned MAHVEL, BAYBEE!, seems to have gotten in on the act, hosting his own tournament for MvC3 named after his memetic Curleh Mustache line. For added measure, he's sometimes seen wearing a curly mustache while commentating matches.

Quite a few lines in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 reference the community from the vanilla version, such as Deadpool's victory quote against Spider-Man talking about Wesker (who was originally revealed alongside Spider-Man) cribbing off of Spidey's Maximum Spider with his "Maximum Wesker" (the Fan Nickname for his Phantom Dance hyper).

Trish also lampshades her resemblance to Dante's mother Eva, and even mocks Dante's infamous memetic line, "I should have been the one to fill your dark soul with light!"

The description for the Yusei pack in Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Tag Force 5 asks if you're into crustaceans, referencing his Fan Nickname of "crabhead".

At the beginning of Fallout: New Vegas, part of the character creation process involves a rorschach inkblot test. One of the images looked, to a lot of players, like two bears with their paws raised as if high-fiving. Since that wasn't one of the options given, a fan mod added that as a potential answer. As a response to that, in the Honest Hearts DLC, taking the Wild Wasteland perk will add a tribal character to the Dead Horses' camp who is named "Two-Bears-High-Fiving".

Fallout and Fallout 2 had Deckard's gun from Blade Runner as a Shout-Out. The gun returns in New Vegas, but there it's simply called "That Gun", Word of God confirming that it was done because players would simply call it "that gun from Fallout and Fallout 2".

In Dynasty Warriors 3, Yuan Shao gives you characters a stern warning in the battle against Dong Zhuo's forces: "Don't pursue Lu Bu". In Dynasty Warriors 7, you can earn an achievement for defeating Lu Bu in any game mode, entitled "OK, You CAN Pursue Lu Bu".

A number of official champion skins started off as player ideas on the community forum. Examples include 'Surprise Party Fiddlesticks' and 'Brolaf'.

A long-running joke was that the curved yellow projectiles Soraka the Starchild launches from her staff are actually bananas. An update to the game eventually gave Soraka a new /joke line "Yes, that was a banana. No-one expects the banana." Taken further with the "Order of the Banana" skin released for April Fools' Day 2015.

A tongue-in-cheek strategy guide for the game, Pro as Heck Guide to Master Yi, prominently features the phrase "Get dunked!" When Vi, a later-introduced champion, uses her ultimate, which knocks the opponent into the air and slams them into the ground, one of the things she might say is... you guessed it, "Get dunked!" This is further taken with a Basketball-themed 'Dunkmaster' skin for Darius, whose ultimate is jumping high and slamming his axe to the enemy like a basket dunk for massive damage.

Pro-League of Legends player Michael "Imaqtpie" Santana is known for the phrase "Raise your dongers", which quickly became linked with Santana's favorite champion Heimerdinger. When Riot Games gave Heimerdinger a visual update, they also gave him a new attack quote: "Raise your what?".

YouTube LOL player CholeraNinja has a series called 'I'm bad at LOL', and in one of the episodes, he hilariously 'roleplays' Xin Zhao to the tune of Mulan's song "I'll Make A Man Out Of You". From that point on, fans linked the song to Xin Zhao and kept believing that he'll make a man out of the players. Riot didn't catch on gameplay-wise, but somewhere on Season 5, whenever Xin Zhao received an update by Riot, the explanation will contain lines from "I'll Make A Man Out Of You".

In one of the pre-video YouTube adverts for League, mid-way through the explanations of how there's a playable character for whatever role you like to play Teemo pops up with a speech bubble saying "Everyone lovesme!"

A common and aggravating sight at one stage of League's lifespan was Brazilian players chosing Mordekaiser, declaring "Mordekaiser es numero uno HUEHUEHUEHUEHUE" and proceeding to troll the entire map. Although those days are mostly behind us, Riot still remembers them as Mordekaiser's Pentakill skin shows him as a heavy metal guitarist, with a guitar named "Numero Uno".

Taken a step further in the 2016 version of Doom Bots sub-mode: in this version, the Doom Bots are Little Devil Teemo's servants and their dark, unnatural abilities are all due to his curses and evil gifts. Fear The Teemoing - it is upon us.

In Fortune Street, when a computer-controlled Donkey Kong lands on a particularly expensive space, one of his possible response lines is "It's on like Donkey Kong!"

Also in the same game, if the voice is set in English, M. Bison's taunts literally becomes him saying the famous line from the movie: "But for Me, It Was Tuesday". And also, one of his win screen quotes is similar to the one from the cartoon, which he also delivers to Chun-li: "I killed my father too, and you don't hear me complaining about it!"

Skullgirls is loaded with these. If it was a meme within the fighting game community, then chances are that it's referenced somewhere in the game.

The most blatant example, on the other hand, is definitely the meme referenced by both the announcer of the game and by one of the achievements: "REAL SOVIET DAMAGE!" note For those not in the know, Skullgirls' lead developer, Mike "Mike Z" Zaimont, was one of the professional gamers Arc System Works hired to make official strategy video for BlazBlue. Mike Z decided to have a little fun and make his video while speaking in a hilarious Large Ham Russian accent, promoting the superiority of communism over capitalist America. The quote above is one of the most memetic lines of the entire video. Further ascending is that future DLC will include Mike Z as REAL SOVIET ANNOUNCER.

"Republican Double for DLC!" started as an in-joke from the game's voice actors, and quickly began circling the internet. Now, thanks to the Indiegogo fundraiser reaching $250,000, Republican Double will now actually be DLC.

Robo-Fortune as well: she started off as a gag by Ms. Fortune's VA Kimlihn Tran, then became an option for a voice-pack like Republican Double before being upgraded to a full-blown character, with her own story mode, stage, and theme music!

Fukua is an April Fools Day version of protagonist Filia, who recieved so much positive support and feedback that she's now a permanent fixture in the game.

The Pure Pwnage episode that introduced the character of FPS Doug had him repeatedly shouting "Boom, headshot!" while playing Counter-Strike. This quickly became a meme, and was used for pictures of headshots (and not the ones where you take pictures of people). And, in Call of Duty games from Modern Warfare 2 onwards, your reward for killing someone with a headshot in multiplayer is a medal named "Boom, headshot".

In the Meet the Sniper promo video for Team Fortress 2 (made by the same company that made Counter-Strike), we open with a closeup of the sniper poking a bobblehead and muttering, "Boom, headshot." Cue title card.

The song Second Heaven from beatmania IIDX has the line "Somebody screeeeeeam!", which the Japanese fandom Mondegreen'ed into "San-bai ice cream!" ("3-scoop ice cream!") A remix of the song appears in the Spin-Off game Sound Voltex Booth, and said remix's cover art depicts a character holding a 3-scoop ice cream cone.

Left 4 Dead 2 made a nod to Coach's love for cheeseburgers in The Passing DLC. In the first safe room, Rochelle may start to brainstorm on how to motivate the rest of the survivors and one of the ideas she comes up with is telling Coach that there is a cheeseburger museum in New Orleans.

Adachi's memetic line "Bitches and whores" (which originated from a fan-edit of a Rise hentai doujinshi) was actually used by him in The Anime of the Game, in a plot-centric piece of dialogue no less.

Also, "Cabbage Adachi" has become an Ascended Meme (the nickname arose in the Japanese fandom after a throwaway line in the game where Adachi mentions he only has enough money to buy cabbage). In one episode of the anime, he's seen shopping at Junes pushing a trolley full of nothing but cabbage.

The Anime of the Game also tweaks the earlier dialogue in Kanji's arc. Originally, Chie just referred Kanji as 'strange', but in the dub, Chie instead slipped out 'gay'. Kanji's surprise at this line ("Did you say 'gay'?") ends up very close to a line with line from the Hiimdaisy oft-quoted line: "You sayin' I like dudes!?"

It even became his "phrase" when his home was available via Spot Pass download in Animal Crossing: New Leaf. He also has a rec-room in the back of his house full of exercise equipment and (of course) a Wii Fit pad.

Dragon Nest has an interesting example. The Paladin has an ability that causes him to shout 'Goddess protect me!' when he uses it. The accent and speed with which the VA says it had many players hear it as 'GLADUS TEK MA!', which rapidly took on meme status in the community. When the game released achievements, the one given for specializing in the Paladin Job was called 'Gladus Tek What?'◊

Creepy Watson: The Return, made as a promo for a sequel to the game the original Creepy Watson video was made in, as a way of announcing the return of the "feature" of teleporting Watson as an option.

Surgeon Simulator 2013 has a number of nods to popular Let's Plays in the Steam Edition's achievements. Amongst them are "Shh I Doctor Now.", which is based off a picture of the doctor putting a finger where the patient's mouth is, "Like A Wild Animal", based off the popular "Rage Quit" segment with Rooster Teeth where Gavin slaps all the items off and Michael calls him that, and "Like A Wet Paper Towel", another RT nod, where Gavin, in his excitement, flings the replacement heart away and Michael snaps at him in disbelief.

The achievement "It's in! It's in I Tell You!" comes from a Let's Play by PewDiePie. The achievement requires you to play the Heart Transplant level, remove all the organs from the patient, put the heart in upside down and let the patient die, referencing PewDiePie accidentally putting the heart in upside down and not having time to fix it, while exclaiming "It's in! It's fucking in! It's in I tell you!". The Pewdsball organ and achievement is also named after PewDiePie.

Shadow the Hedgehog was known for its Narmy lines, and perhaps the biggest one was "Where's that DAMN fourth Chaos Emerald?!" In a nod to this, Sonic Generations has him holding that damn fourth Chaos Emerald.

Ever since Aaron Webber took over Sonic's social media accounts in 2014, he's been dedicated to ascending as many memes as possible, including Sanic, Sonichu, appending "And Knuckles" to the end of things, and various memetic phrases such as "Get a load of this!" When fans started coming up with new memes - such as a humorous-looking smear frame in the Sonic Mania intro - Webber started turning thoseinto Ascended Memes as well.

The Nancy Drew games have Nancy say "It's locked" in such a deadpan tone a lot of players thought it was hilarious. So naturally, Her Interactive has made sure to include the voice clip in every game, and even has some in-game advertisements making fun of locked doors.

A NeoGAF user named Feep attended E3 and wrote a post praising Scribblenauts for its extensive word list, ending with "I FUCKING TRAVELED THROUGH TIME AND JUMPED ON A DINOSAUR AND USED IT TO KILL MOTHERFUCKING ROBOT ZOMBIES." The developers included both Feep and Post 217 (the number of said post) in the game (as a robot zombie and a picture of the described event that acts as a nuke, respectively). There is also an official wallpaper◊ detailing the event.

In Planescape: Torment, if you have Morte and Fall-From-Grace in your party, it's possible to hear a random banter where Morte sheepishly admits he's "the Head of Vecna" and then changes the subject to a highly amused Grace. This is referencing a memetic story from the tabletop game about a particular stupid party of players who nearly wiped themselves out over a fictitious "Head of Vecna" artefact their Dungeon Master faked them out with. See, Greyhawk has the Hand and Eye of Vecna as real artefacts, but both items only work for a user willing to cut their hand off/gouge their eye out and install the undead appendage in its place...

The Hawkeye Initiative is a Tumblr page devoted to putting the hero Hawkeye in various, unlikely, feminine poses (thus highlighting their absurdity, or anatomical impossibility). One of the updates for the game Marvel: Avengers Alliance had an update called "Hawkeye's Initiative", which, while didn't give him the ability to pose like a female superhero, gave him some better stats and abilities.

The "The cake is a lie" meme and the numerous references to cake in Portal meant that Valve Software, reluctant as they were, just couldn't get away without including at least one reference to cake in Portal 2, which came in the form of a sign on the fake door leading to the battle with GLaDOS: "GLaDOS Emergency Shutdown and Cake Dispenser. Keep Unlocked."

The incident when GLaDOS gets attached to a potato battery got dubbed "PotatOS" by the fans. The official soundtrack album Portal 2: Songs to Test By ended up with a track titled "PotatOS Lament". The developer commentary also refers to potato GLaDOS by this name.

Grand Theft Auto V: Sometimes, when switching over to Trevor, he'll be chasing random people on scooters with a scooter of his own while shouting: "We're scooter brothers! Scooter brothers, yeah!", which is a reference to Brad Simons' (4PP) most infamous video; literally almost every line in the video is repeated by Trevor.

The advertising campaign for Call of Duty: Ghosts features one man working in an office while his co-worker repeatedly trash-talks him about the previous night's game, while suggestively dipping a teabag.

A subtle one in Pokémon X and Y: Inspect the back rooms of your character's house and you will see that Game Freak has finally included a bed for your mother, in response to years of fan comments about how she presumably sleeps on the table since your house only has one bed (yours).

The last trainer you face before entering the courtyard outside the Elite 4's compound in X and Y will inform you that "my body is ready."

Another example has an NPC ask the player if they like Pokemon. After answering yes a couple of times, she will give you a Poke Doll, in reference to the "so i herd u liek mudkipz" meme.

An American Valentine's Day card references the meme revolving around posting a Slowpoke when someone is late to notice something. The card has a Slowpoke on it and says "Happy New Year!"

Many jokes exist about the move "Fly" and "Surf" and how the protagonist can apparently ride very small Pokemon. For the 20th anniversary of the series a ton of official art of the protagonists was made. A few feature them riding tiny Pokemon.

A long-standing joke among fans is how Snorlax's sprites/models, when ordered by generation, make it appear like it's trying to stand up. It finally accomplished this feat in Gen 6... and, come Gen 7, it gains (via an exclusive Z-Move) the ability to jump to an extreme height, then slam on the opposing Pokémon. Looks like standing up gave it a little too much power. This is actually referenced in an official trailer for the game.

In The Sims, people found the Video Game Cruelty Potential amusing, and the fact that Sims could be killed off in improbable ways (like drowning because they couldn't climb out of a pool with no ladder) became something the game was known for. In The Sims 2, pre-made character Brandi Broke lost her husband in "a suspicious pool-ladder accident."

In Tales of Destiny 2, Barbatos Goetia had a specific counter to every trick the player tried, most notably items. He'd immediately throw a spell at you whilst the usual arte tag at the top (which normally displayed an arte's name) would simply display Barbatos shouting "Don't use items against me!" Since items would be commonly used against hard bosses, Barbatos would drain player's stock fast leading to the joke that he REALLY hated item users. Then when he appears as a Bonus Boss in the remake of the first Tales of Destiny and from that point onward, he ends up getting that reaction as a special Mystic Arte with its own animation (at the expense of his spells and specific reacting to everything else.)

One very popular GIF made by the community of Ragnarok Online features an Alchemist ordering her Cart reveal a massive cannon and firing a powerful shot. Fast forward many years later, the Geneticist class (the final evolution of Alchemist) gets a skill called Cart Cannon, which is particularly baffling because almost every Geneticist skill is either about making potions or using plants to attack, while the skill would make far more sense for the Mechanic class.

One Robot Arena 2 tournament held on popular fansite gametechmods included an entry named "Spinner from the west" (SFTW), that quickly became infamous as one of the worst robots the community had ever seen and was turned into a running joke by the community. When Robot Arena 3 was released, it included a Joke Character named The Lone Saw that was an exact replica of SFTW, albeit with a different paintjob.

The Wii U/3DS installment of the Super Smash Bros. series features two online battle options, named "For Fun" and "For Glory". When playing For Glory, all matches are No Items, Final Destination. (All characters remain available, so no Fox Only.)

In Super Smash Bros Brawl, Snake's codec conversation regarding Captain Falcon is basically HAL Laboratory lampshading the popularity of the "Falcon... PUNCH!" by having even Snake and Otacon say that they've been dying for an excuse to say it themselves.

This tradition is continued in the next Smash Bros. game with some of the Palutena's Guidance conversations; for instance, when discussing Samus, the conversation covers her I Am Not Shazam status, as well as Link's and Pit's.

After "We like Ike!" went memetic from Brawl, Nintendo's official UK Twitter feed (them again) posted a screenshot of Ike being apparently eaten by a stage hazard monster in Super Smash Bros 4 with the phrase "Somebody likes Ike".

Ryu's reveal trailer references the Sheng Long meme mentioned above by having him say that actual, properly translated version of the line. Apart from replacing "Sheng Long" with "my Shoryuken", the rest of the wording is identical to the memetic version.

When Villager from Animal Crossing was announced they spawned a meme where they became a violent, Memetic Badass axe murderer. When Bayonetta was revealed as a newcomer, official art made to coincide with that showed Villager on the 'evil' side of the screen (though strangely Lil Mac and Charizard were also on it).

The phrase "KURLAND HERE", said by Captain James Kurland during the mission "Boldly They Rode" has reached this level as, during the fifth anniversary event, Q Junior will pop in if you visit Deep Space 9 and ask "Is Kurland there?"

A bug once made Deep Space K-7 disappear from the game map and it was jokingly said that Klingons hid it with a cloak. When it came back, you can find a gathering of Starfleet officers interrogating a Klingon on how he did it.

During raocow's playthrough of Copy Kitty, he said "destroy the world" a lot, so much that the phrase became associated with the playthrough. Come the update for ver. 1.0, and "destroy the world" is an achievement in the game.

Loyal weapons engineers have corrected this [unacceptable levels of inaccuracy] with a minor improvement to the horizontal control of the venerable T9 CARV unification platform

The Dwarf Fortress Help screen concludes its short explanation of Fortress Mode with "Losing is Fun!", a catchphrase originally coined by the forums regarding the game's difficulty and the tendency of forts to spontaneously go to hell (metaphorically or literally) for any number of reasons.

If you pursue his romance, Iron Bull will refer to "riding the bull", referencing a hashtag used to express desire for Iron Bull as a romance option.

Morrigan is infamous for disapproving of everything, to the point that "Morrigan Disapproves" was an official t-shirt. When the final DLC for Inquisition added trials, optional features to make the game more challenging, one of them was "Fair Weather Friends", which doubles all approval losses. Its description is laid out in front of Morrigan's picture.

Five Nights at Freddy's 2 also referenced the "Are you ready for Freddy?" meme with a poster in the game depicting Freddy and co. with the caption "PARTY TIME! U READY?"

In Five Nights at Freddy's World, during the loading screen, all of the playable characters pop up with their own tagline. Phantom Chica's tagline says "Stop calling me a watermelon." Scott added this because of the textures of her burned head, it made her look like a watermelon.

There was once a rumor that standing in the Dojo for 30 minutes would turn your penguin into a ninja. Later, the introduction of the Card-Jitsu minigame (hosted in the Dojo, of course) let players actually become ninjas, and the DS game Elite Penguin Force has an NPC that asks about the rumor.

Another popular subject for rumors was tipping the Iceberg. One secret agent mission has Herbert mention that his attempt to escape from his home island on an iceberg went south when it tipped; you have the option of asking how it was possible.

At one point when the developer was about to make an announcement a reddit user remarked that if the announcement were for planetary landings he would eat a sock. Naturally the annonucement was for planetary landings, and the community lept on him demanding that a sock be eaten. Frontier Developments themselves stepped in and asked everyone to calm down, and for the user in question to not, in fact, eat a sock. This of course just generated more attention. A reddit bot was created to notify the user every time a sock was mentioned, and it became a sustained running gag. This finally reached full ascension when Frontier announced that Elite: Dangerous Socks were available for sale on their storefront with the tagline "these socks are good enough to eat!", and featuring a picture of David Braben, founder of the company and creator of the original Elite, wearing a pair◊.

In Super Mario Maker, one very popular level style was to give Mario a Fire Flower and a Koopa Klown Car and have him fly through a screen full of enemies, creating a level not unlike a scrolling shooter. The devs noticed and loved the idea, so they created the SMM-exclusive Fire Koopa Klown Car, which is a Koopa Klown Car with the build-in ability to shoot fireballs, specifically to support this level archetype.

"It's On Like Donkey Kong" is a phrase that's been popular since the 1980s, due to the original Donkey Kong. Nintendo has used the term multiple times in advertisements and merchandise. They even tried to trademark it once.

Dark Souls: Fans have long joked that it would be an utter nightmare, even by the standards of this game series, to have to fight Iron Knight Tarkus. Come Dark Souls III and there's Knight Slayer Tsorig, a hostile character wearing all of Tarkus's armor and his shield, and wielding one of the most powerful weapons in the game. At least it's an optional encounter.

Doom contains a cheat code of IDSPISPOPD — a reference to a joke on Usenet before the game's release, that the next game should have a ridiculous title to avoid the capability for people to get hyped up over it. A suggestion was made for Smashing Pumpkins Into Small Piles of Putrid Debris.

The achievement lists for Doom II on Xbox Live is ripe with references to the comic. One of the achievement is You Have Huge Guts, which requires you to kill a Cyberdemon with your fists, just like in the comic (except succeed this time).

Doom (2016) contains an achievement named "Shoot It Until It Dies" for killing the Cyberdemon, a reference to the protip meme created by an administrator of the Doomworld Forums.

The first level is called "Rip And Tear" and the same words actually appear in the opening monologue.

Just like John Stalvern in DOOM: Repercussions of Evil, the Doom Marine has become demonically terrifying to the demons themselves, and has been exposed to so much demonic power that he has indeed "become the demons".

Hitman fans know "Allan" as the guy who simply doesn't add details. Originally an oversight in Hitman: Blood Moneynote One item description reads "Allan please add details", but the joke returned as an easter egg in Hitman: Absolution and Hitman (2016), and even was referenced in the HD remaster.note The item description was changed to "Still no details Allan?"

"Jack Please" was originally an in-forum joke after the release of Hitman (2016) Sapienza trailer, which ends with 47 saying "Check Please". The waiter he was talking to was given the name "Jack Please"

In Path of Exile, a minor unique enemy named Kuduku, the False God has been an in-joke to the community as a literal Random Number God. Earning Kuduku's favor includes "sacrificing" a (crappy) unique item in front him and pray that he will bless you on your efforts to six-link an item. In the Prophecy league, one of the prophecies require you to kill Kuduku who is assisted by Kadaka, the Goddess of Luck, which rewards you with Orbs of Fusing.

Pokémon Go: In their update notes, Niantic (developer) put "Minor Text Fixes" as one of the things they changed. Players who felt Niantic should be spending time fixing other problems with the game made this a meme to mock them. In the v1.3.1 patch, Niantic made sure to mention "No Text Fixes" in their notes.

Splatoon: Due to the thoroughlyNarmtastic tv-commercial, "You're a kid! You're a squid!" ended up being something of a Memetic Mutation catchphrase for the game's English-speaking fans. It wasn't long before an update added a reference to it in Callie and Marie's stage announcement banter:

Rin (a girl who has no arms) "hugs" Hisao by moving right next to him and declaring "I'm hugging you, Hisao". This had previously been a meme originating in a fan-sketch. Towards the end of her route, in her bad ending, it becomes a "Funny Aneurysm" Moment.

However in her good ending this meme takes another meaning as she randomly stretches her arms which Hisao interprets it as her hugging the world.

Toward the end of Lilly's route, the meme in which she asks "Who's there? No answer, it must be that deaf bitch"note Lilly, being blind, can't see Shizune, and Shizune, being deaf-mute, cannot hear or respond to "Who's there?" gets referenced when she asks Misha, Shizune's interpreter, to get something for her. Shizune does so instead, but there's a twist; the two have put aside their differences.

Lilly: (as Shizune hands her the folder) Thank you, Misha.

Hisao narrating: No reply. No reply, that is, save for an odd grin... no... smile... on Shizune's face. A couple of seconds pass before Lilly clicks that it isn't Misha behind her, but Shizune. Her momentary look of surprise is replaced by a slightly bashful smile.

One of the achievements in the 2016 Playstation 4 and Playstation Vita version of Super Star Wars is, of course, "Han Shot First" which requires Han Solo to kill one of the many Greedo enemies in the Cantina level. Somehow. Bear in mind, you need to beat the Cantina to unlock Han in the first place so the only way this can be done is via cheating.

Homestuck embraces this trope. Like its predecessor Problem Sleuth, the author listens to his fans and goes out of his way to support and/or mock the most popular fan theories.

One of the more popular AUs is Trollcops, depicting Sollux and Terezi as, well, troll cops. When the AlterniaBound album came out, there were two tracks themed around the AU, both called Trollcops.

In one panel, a faraway Karkat is drawn with less detail and no visible arms, making him look like he's wearing pants up to his neck. Fans referred to him as Pantskat and began drawing fanart of him in his long pants. This made its way back into the comic: when fedorafreak combines a shirt and pair of pants in the Alchemiter, he gets a pair of absurdly long pants. And at another point, Karkat self-deprecates spectacularly about wearing pants hiked up to his armpits as punishment. And then, when Karkat's ancestor is finally shown, he is indeed wearing pants hiked up to his armpits as punishment. Said pants become holy relics of his followers.

And the original Pantskat pixel of him has been inserted into at least two later flash animations.

And the Beforan version of Kankri wears a red sweater because Porrim got tired of looking at his "stupid hiked-up pants".

Which is itself a reference to the fan depiction of Karkat wearing a sweater or turtleneck in a lot of fan art.

A fan animation on YouTube that lip-synced Gamzee up to the Double Rainbow song became enormously popular in the fandom and cemented Gamzee as the Ensemble Dark Horse amongst the trolls. So, later on, Gamzee mentions a 'double metaphor all the way, across Skaia :o)'.

Early in the comic, there's a short scene of Gamzee and Tavros chatting to each other like close friends, using each others's emoticons and rapping together (although we don't actually see the rap). This acted as enough Ho Yay to make Gamzee/Tavros a popular ship in the fandom, and it picked up the Idiosyncratic Ship Name "Peanut Butter and Jelly-shipping" or just "PBJ" (since Tavros is associated with the colour brown and Gamzee with purple). Later on, we see the second half of their conversation, in which Gamzee is flirting obviously with Tavros, and he affectionately calls Tavros the 'emotional peanut butter to [Gamzee's] royal jelly'.

This also served as Andrew's constant Running Gag of referencing gay pornography in most of his works.

Also, pretty much everything concerning fedorafreak's role in anything since his first brief mention.

Several of the walkaround flash games had an Easter Egg called "Trickster Mode" that did assorted weird things. From this, fans came up with the idea of Trickster versions of the characters, usually depicted in pastels and bright colors, covered in candy, and generally Sickeningly Sweet. Then along came "[S] Jane: Engage," and now it's a rather terrifyingSuper Mode.

The first alien character, revealed crouching and sneaking up on a character at the very end of season 3, was unnamed for a long time. On the season 3 DVD commentary, the Rooster Teeth staffed shared a story about a young fan e-mailing them after the finale's release inquiring about the "Crouchasaurus", a nickname which caught on amongst fans. In a season 4 scene where the characters attempt to name the creature, "Crouchasaurus" gets an inevitable mention.

Early in the series, many fans asked the staff why the Red team had one member, Grif, wearing yellow armor. Though Rooster Teeth had actually given him orange armor, fans often claimed they couldn't tell it was orange at all. Rooster Teeth eventually included a Yellow Grif in a scene showing how the stupidest character in the series viewed the other characters, and later introduced Grif's sister, actually in yellow armor, and assigned her to the opposing Blue team.

Similarly, many fans asked why Tucker, usually in teal armor, seemed to be wearing green armor in one scene. The staff responded that the scene was shot in the shadows, which made teal look green within the game engine. In that season's blooper reel on the DVD, the scene is restaged with one character asking Tucker why his armor is green.

Some weird Internet silliness on Reddit made it a meme for Epileptic Trees being called "potatoes". When the RWBY: Grimm Eclipse video game was released, the lowest graphical setting was labelled "potato".

After the end of Volume 3, many fans had began trying to figure out what to name the new team of Ruby, Jaune, Nora and Ren. Many team names included "RNJR" ("Ranger"), "RRNJ" ("Orange"), and "JNRR" ("Junior"). The first episode of Volume 4 has Ren and Nora arguing over what they should call themselves with Nora supporting "JNRR"note The idea being that there were more members of the former JNPR than they were of RWBY and Ren supporting "RNJR"note The idea being that this is Ruby's adventure and they were just helping her out.

"Jennie is a plantcake" was a common lonelygirl15 fan meme ("plantcake" meaning plant; it's a long story), which resulted in Jennie attempting to prove that she isn't a plantcake in "Casting Couch".

KateModern: The Last Work featured the suggestion that Meryl should have her own show, which was already a fan in-joke. Similarly, "Orivwa" featured the use of the fan nickname for the main characters, "the K-Team".

Everyman HYBRID spawned a meme involving one of the characters, Jeff, being Batman after he tackled a security guard in "Damsel". Jeff later jokingly admitted to being Batman on Twitter and in "One step forward, two steps back", he wore a Batman shirt.

The Futaba Channel in Japan started the OS-tan meme, where each version of Windows received a Moe Anthropomorphism whose characteristics where what the particular operating system was best known for. When Windows 7 hit the market, Microsoft decided to create one, Nanami Madobe, for their Japanese marketing campaign.

Fremere's Guard also contains a pose homaging the Air Shark, which began as a fan elaboration on an April Fool's event in zOMG!. A differently-designed Air Shark now appears in-game, making this a meme that ascended twice.

A Gaia fan on DeviantArt pointed out that Gino Gambino's Big Ol' Eyebrows looked like Twinkies, spawning the "Twinkie Brows" meme. One of the collectible SD Plus dolls of Gino has equippable "Twinkie Brows" as a bonus pose.

One fan in the GCD made an anniversary thread dedicated to the Case of Pietro evolving item, and even baked a red velvet cake to show her appreciation. The night of its anniversary, a "Cake of Pietro" pose appeared in the item itself — a red velvet cake, with a chibi Thief stealing the first slice.

In the Global Guardians PBEM Universe, the idea that Stone's mom was a supervillain originated as a joke between the players (including Stone's player). The jokes continued for more than two years. When the story of Stone's parents was finally explored, it turned out that Stone's mom really was a supervillain.

Being a site with multiple writers, it's not surprising that there are in-joke references in Survival of the Fittest at times. One has to do with the "Inactivity Bear", which handlers often joke kills and eats inactive characters. When Megan Nelson went inactive, her death is that she woke up a bear in a cave, which...well, killed and ate her, much to the amusement of the handlers.

On the adoptable pet website/game Chicken Smoothie, the baby stage of one of the pony adoptables was nicknamed "roadkill pony" by forum members as it looked as though it had been hit by a car. Come Halloween a special variation of the pony was released by the artist that had the pony covered in tire tracks. It came in three forms; one that stayed in that pose, and two that grew up into zombies.

In the Whateley Universe story Five Elements Dancing: Fire, Dr. Diabolik's suggestion of a response to the Tong of the Black Madonna's breaking the neutrality policy originated from a piece of Fan-Art:

I think a measured response is in order, wouldn’t you say? Say, something on the order of Orbital Bombardment?

The Minecraft meme "That's a very nice everything you have there...shame if something were to happen..." associated with Creepers got some references in the descriptions of official Minecraft merchandise, and even nearly directly quoted on one shirt!

Minecraft has its own Urban Legend of Zelda in the form of Herobrine, a mysterious and elusive entity responsible for obviously-man-made block placements and deformities appearing in single-player worlds, notable for its glowing eyes and its increasingly hostile responses to being seen. In addition to Notch occasionally writing "Removed Herobrine" in patch notes, the 1.8 Adventure Update introduces Endermen, glow-eyed monsters that randomly move blocks around the landscape (creating unnatural formations) and, on being seen, will stop and stare at the player, running (and teleporting) in to attack once eye contact is broken.

Speaking of Minecraft and ascended memes, the tutorial level of the Xbox 360 Edition has a Tower of Pimps in it.

JohnnyUtah's Tankmen short resonated with the early Newgrounds community so much that they're now the site's mascots.

MSF High Forum: Firewood was originally an insult, used by Kirso to refer to the ironically non-flammable Legion. Mitchell, amused by it, had it incorporated as an official racial slur. (And, like all racial slurs, mostly inaccurate).

The board for the GameFAQs Character Contests referred to the nine strongest characters (in the first edition, anyway; a few suffered upsets ever since) as Noble Nine. For the 9th edition, the bracket had nine divisions, with those 9 as the one seeds.

A further manipulation of the seedings had all of the 8-seeds in the ninth edition being characters that had been heavily rallied on the contest board, which is officially called "GameFAQs Contests" but generally identifies itself as "Board 8" after its index number.

Billy MC played McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure after a joke from Retsupurae associated him with McDonald's.note One of BillyMC's videos on ''Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels had him mention his mother asking if he wanted anything from McDonald's while she was Christmas shopping. This lead to slowbeef and Diabeetus to burst out into laughter and lead them to kick off the idea he gets McDonald's for Christmas.

Another RP joke, BayouBillyMC, led him to play The Adventures of Bayou Billy.

A minor meme in The Runaway Guys is people posting one line from the video out of context, usually the ones with sexual implications. Episode 22 of TRG's Super Mario 3D World LP has one of these in the description, to save viewers the trouble of doing it.note Also, considering Chugga wrote the description, it's also a case of Self-Deprecation.

Due to Kidnapper-kun from Nyan~ Neko Sugar Girls having no known name for most of the series fans began calling him "Jeff". In the finale it's revealed that his name is Bokutachi. Koneko then states she thought his name was "Jeff". After a beat she gets mocked for thinking so.

Extra Credits has a few in one of its offshoot series, Extra History. The most famous one, however, stems from their series on the South Sea Bubble in 1700s England. In it, a member of the Whigs, Sir Robert Walpole, was manipulating virtually every event of the aftermath of the bubble bursting—mainly involving a ledger of bribes made by the South Sea Company, which would have led to the Whig Party's leaders almost certainly being imprisoned, to ensure he could become the leader of the government. His manipulation happened so much that Daniel eventually wonders aloud, "Who knows where (Robert Knight's ledger) went...it was Walpole." In most series since, Walpole has either made a cameo appearance, or James note The show's writer will link Walpole to whatever topic they are discussing, like the First Crusade, the tales of Admiral Yi, or the reign of Justinian. It's now to the point where, during their Early Christian Schisms series, they end the second video by asking the viewer to "Take a wild guess how it (the Council of Nicea) ends." Cue a person at a computer saying "It was Walpole..."

Rhinox's signature weapon from Beast Wars, a pair of machine guns, gained the nickname "Chain Guns of Doom", a name that was later mentioned in the Ultimate Guide.

It also showed up on the back of the box for the 10th Anniversary reissue of his toy.

This has also happened for a fan edit of a Transformers Armada promotional comic that portrayed Hot Shot as a mentally challenged lunatic obsessed with "JaAm". Mention of it creeped into Hot Shot's 2009 universe bio, and he also has it on his license plate.

The grey pegasus with the blonde mane and walleyes had her fan-given name, Derpy, confirmed as canon on Jan 21st 2012, and her fan-created love of muffins confirmed in the ending credits of the movie.

In 2013, the video game changed the pony "Time Turner" to Dr. Hooves, which is as close to his fan name, Doctor Whooves, as you can get without getting sued. Of course, he exists as a character in the first place due to Memetic Mutation. He was a background pony with no characterization and a totally different voice portrayal every time he got to say a word or two, and would have wings or a horn depending on where they were, but fans latched onto him because he had David Tennant's hair cut/color and an hourglass as his personal symbol. Now, he has merchandise, an official name and description, and there are other background ponies with identical hourglass marks looking like other Doctor actors. No word on if they're the same guy. In "It Ain't Easy Being Breezies", he appears alongside Rose(luck) wearing 3D glasses; Rose being the name of 10th Doctor's first companion.

The toys have a good amount of these as well; a good example is Heartstrings, who very closely resembled the popular background pony nicknamed Lyra, resulting in the fans deciding that "Heartstrings" was Lyra's surname. Sure enough, every subsequent wave of toys names the pony as "Lyra Heartstrings". Similarly, Lulamoon resembled minor antagonist Trixie, so Lulamoon was believed to be a stage name or a surname. Later toys named her Trixie Lulamoon. Another example is DJ-Pon3, who despite appearing for only a few seconds in one episode, proved so popular that the name ended up being canonized in The Hub's "Equestria Girls" TV commercial, and like Lyra she ended up getting her own toy. In this case, the other name (Vinyl Scratch) became her real name with DJ-Pon3 being a stage name.

In addition to the comic, even television listings descriptions refer to the main characters as the Mane Six by now.

Background pony Bon Bon was named after the My Little Pony Tales pony with a similar cutie mark, but renamed "Sweetie Drops" when the trademark was lost. She has been given a line or two in several episodes over the years, and like Dr. Whooves, her portrayal was very different from one time to the next. Fans decided she must be one heck of a voice actress. Now at least one of her toys mentions her talent for changing her voice.

Minuette, another recurring extra, was nicknamed "Colgate" due to her toothpaste-striped mane, and became a frequent subject of the "Brushie Brushie" meme. In "Luna Eclipsed", she dresses as a dental surgeon for Nightmare Night.

The 100th episode is an entire episode devoted to ascended memes, including but not limited to Derpy Hooves (now called Muffins), Dr. Hooves, Lyra Heartstrings and Bon Bon, and Vinyl Scratch and Octavia (roommates). Doctor Whooves gets many scenes with Derpy (fanonically the Doctor's companion and/or love interest) and one with Roseluck at the end (after the Revival's iconic first companion Rose Tyler; Roseluck is, in fact, never called anything but "Rose" in the show.)

Lyra and Bon Bon also get special mention for that episode. The fandom's OTP constantly call themselves "best friends..." and have the maximum amount of Les Yay you can give two characters short of having them make out onscreen. This both pleases and angers both shippers and non-shippers to a degree that's quite hilarious. Also, both names for her are now canon; Sweetie Drops is her real name but she goes by Bon Bon since she's actually a secret agent. It was definitely a love letter to us all.

"Make New Friends But Keep Discord" gives a moment to Celestia. One popular fan portrayal of her is that she is the ultimate prankster, even giving Discord a run for his money. Canon Celestia has been known to have a slight mischievous side, often used to put people at ease. Well, in this episode, she was in full Trollestia mode, finding all the chaos quite glorious.

And now the Food Network has given Boitano a cooking show. He's calling it What Would Brian Boitano Make?, and it does use a cleaned up version of the song as its theme song.

On The Simpsons, Milhouse was always known for failure. But since the association with a Forced Meme, he has a habit of spouting them and trying to force memes. It fails every time.

"D'oh!", "embiggen" and "cromulent" were all added to the Oxford English Dictionary.

After senator Fritz Hollings infamously referred to Beavis And Butthead as "Buffcoat and Beaver", other characters calling the duo by the wrong name became a running gag (and yes, Buffcoat and Beaver was actually used in an episode).

Those famous Felix the Cat clocks? They started out as bootlegs. Because of their popularity, the company began selling an "official" version.

The "Fry sees what you did there", "Not sure if..." and "Why not Zoidberg?" memes were used by Comedy Central in commercials for Futurama's 7th season.

The Couch Gag for the 7th season premiere was "Not sure if new episode or just rerun of episode I watched drunk".

Phineas and Ferb has a minor character named Balthazar Horowitz, but his real name was not revealed in-show until the season 4 episode "Troy Story". Before that, he was informally referred to as "The Ballpit Kid," a nickname granted by the show's wiki. In the same episode, after stating his full name, Balthazar says, "But you can call me 'The Ballpit Kid'."

In the penultimate episode "Act Your Age" during the song "What Might Have Been" Isabella says the line "They could call us 'Phinabella'" a reference to their most popular Portmanteau Couple Name

In Cartoon Network's rebooted ThunderCats (2011), during Panthro's debut episode he tells Lion-O "You're standing on my sammoflange"; later on, Tigra asks what exactly a sammoflange is. This is a reference to the infamous Hilarious Outtakes video from the original Thunder Cats, where one clip has Panthro say "And keep your foot off that blasted sammoflange!", which makes Tigra's voice actor break character, cracking up and asking "What the fuck is a sammoflange?!"

Robot Chicken's "Mo-Larr, Eternian Dentist" sketch was so popular, that Mattel gave him an action figure in their fan-oriented Masters of the Universe Classics line; he came with all his dental tools, and a toothless Skeletor figure; the back of the box further referenced the skit, showing Beast Man tied up with the dental floss and Grizzlor with the "&@#$-ing drill" in his eye.

Charlie Sheen has embraced the internet memes spawned from interviews on his drug abuse and firing from Two and a Half Men, such as "Tiger blood" and "Winning!" He even got the word "Winning!" tattooed on his wrist.

On an episode of Two and a Half Men, when Alan starts thinking he's Charlie, he exclaims "Winning!" at one point.

Honda, in its sporty Civic Si model, decided for the 2012 model year to add an indicator light that lets the driver know when VTEC kicks in. Yo.

Former NASA flight director Gene Kranz never said "Failure is not an option!" during the Apollo 13 mission, but he liked it so much, feeling it perfectly captured the spirit of NASA, that he used it for the title of his memoirs.

A photo of Hillary Clinton on her cell phone spawned the "Texts from Hillary tumblr. They decided to retire the blog when they realized they couldn't really top a submission from Hillaryherself.

Consumer reporter Ric Romero of Los Angeles' KABC TV gained notoriety on Fark.com when he reported on the "new" phenomenon of blogging - a year after bloggers led the media in ending Dan Rather's career. After that, any time a reporter reported something incredibly obvious, it was, "Ric Romero reporting", and follow-up reports such as "in other news, water is wet" would be attributed to him. Ric found out about his notoriety in 2009 and challenged Fark.com to donate to his favorite charity, the LA County Fire Dept. "Spark of Love" toy drive. After Farkers donated over $13,000, Romero thanked the Fark community on the air for their donations, and then also reported the "breaking news" that "Water is Wet."

The face behind the "Bad Luck Brian" meme uploaded a photo of himself wearing a shirt with the meme on it to the internet.

After Iron Man, the characters of Tony Stark and Pepper Potts garnered the nickname "Pepperony," and after a while, it started being used to refer to the actors themselves (who have been good friends for years.) Somewhere along the line, Robert Downey, Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow started calling◊themselves "Pepperony."

In Australian Rules Football, the interjection "Yellow and Black!" in the Richmond Tigers' theme song "Tigerland" used to be just something the fans yelled out. It's now included in the official version.

Around the time the legalization of marijuana started gaining real traction in some states, someone made a Facebook post featuring a picture of a woman named "Becky" with a claim that she died from overdosing on marijuana. A few responses pointed out that the pictured woman was obviously Taylor Swift, which drew the simple and terse response "No it's Becky." This phrase instantly became a meme, culminating with being printed on a t-shirt worn by - yes, Taylor Swift herself.

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